Faucet



UNITED STATES.

. PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE SHONE, OE EASTST. LOUIS, ASSIGNOR OE ONE-HALE TO AUGUSTUS M. DEOLEROQ, OE BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

FAUC'ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,124, dated December 11, 1883.

u Applicatiou'fnea March 22,1883. (No model.;

Toc/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE SHONE, of East St. Louis, in the countyof St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Faucets, `of which the following is a full, clean-and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

.My invention relates to a faucet in which the plug is kept to its seat by the'pressure of the liquid within the pipe or vessel, and my improvement consists in the construction hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a perspective View of the parts disconnected. Figs. 2 and 8 are sectional views at 2 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 2 showing the cock closed, and Fig. 3 showing the cock open. Fig. 4. is

` an axial section, showing, like the previous figures, the cock or faucet in form of the wastecock of a steam-engine cylinder. Fig. 5 shows in axial section the improvement applied to a faucet for beer or other barrels. Fig. 6 shows another modification.

The same letters will be applied to the same parts in both modications.

-I will rst describe the invention as illustrated in the first series of figures.A

A is a cap, having screw-threaded portionk a, by which the faucet is connected to a cylinder, pipe, barrel, or other vessel containing iiuid to be drawn through the faucet.

B is the body of the faucet, having a neck,

b, and made fast to the cap by screwing therein or by other means.

C is a conical seat in the body, against which works the conical part D ofthe plug D. The larger end of the plug has a recess, E, extending beneath the conical part D.

From the inner end of the recess or cavity E extends a passage, E, that may, by turning the plug, be brought in'line with the discharge-orifice B', extending through the body B. The stem Dl of the plug' maybe' turned .by a lever, F, or other means tting its angu- It also has a circular part, d, which ts in the neck of the body. The lever is held on the stem by a nut, G, that holds the plug in place in the absence of pressure from within. When the faucet is in use, the outward pressure against the inner end of the, y v plug keeps the conical part D always in close contact with the seat C with a steady pressure, so that a tight ground' joint is maintained by ordinary use of the faucet.

to a beer-faucet, the stem of which has the usual form. In this case, as the pressure of the liquid might` not always be sufficient to keep the plug up to its seat, a rubber washer may beinterposed between the lever or handbar and the body, as shown at H, said elastic washer keeping the plug` to its seat.

I is a screw-cap, stopping the hole through which the plug is inserted or removed.

By increasing the number of the eduction` openings B',the cock can be made a three or four 7 way cock, the outflow fromeach opening being conveyed to a separate place.

It is not an essential feature of my invention that the plug should be madev with a recess or passage in the inner end for the escape of iiuid, the'essential feature being that the turning plug shall be continuously pressed outwardly to' its conical seat by the iiuid in the pipe or vessel. this out is shown in Fig. 6, which figure is part in elevation and part in section. In this modication the plug is bored diametrically through at E for the passage of the fluid, and the plug is pressed to its seat by the iiuid in a chamber, B2, supplied from the bore B3 by a passage, B4.y

I claim as my invention` vl. The combination of a faucet` having a main liquid-passage, a plug having a conical part, and aV body having a conical seat, thek ;liquidpassage passing-through the conical part of the plug, and a passage extending from the main liquid-passage to a chamber at the .larger end of the plug, as set forth.

2. In a faucet, the combination of a body, B, having a neck, b, conical seat C, and discharge-orifice B through said conical seat, anda plug', D,- having -conical part D to t lthe seat, and stem D2, formed .with circular part d to, iitfthe neck, the conical part being .formed with a cavity, E, and passage E', leading to the discharge-orifice, as set forth.

GEORGE SHONE.

Witnesses:

y SAML. KNIGHT,

GEO.` H. KNIGHT.

In Fig. 5 the improvement is shown applied i One manner of carrying 

